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Heart of Stone (1950)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Overview
Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the “cold heart” in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.
Length 101 minutes
Actors
Lutz Moik | Hanna Rucker | Paul Esser | Paul Bildt | Erwin Geschonneck | Hannsgeorg Laubenthal | Walter Tarrach | Lotte Loebinger | Alexander Engel | Karl Hellmer | Herbert Kiper | Karl-Heinz Deickert | Eva Probst | Egon Brosig | Heinz Förster-Ludwig | Bernhard Goetzke | Willy Prager | Victor Janson | Ruth Lommel | Marlise Ludwig | Friedrich Maurer | Wolfgang-Erich Parge | Renée Stobrawa | Otto Stoeckel | Gerd Prager | Willi Narloch | Angela Brunner | Nico Turoff | Hans-Joachim Hanisch